CAYAPONIA . CUCURBITACEÆ (aucr. COGNIAUX). 761 
plices. Flores ignoti. Pedunculus fructiferus robustiusculus, glaber, 
angulato-suleatus, ramosus, 2-12 cent. longus ; pedicelli 3-15, patuli, 
graciles, ad basim ssepius minute bracteolati, 3-18 mill. longi. Fruc- 
tus olivaceus, globosus, glaber, levis, nitidus, 2 cent. crassus. Semina 
fusca, ovata, utrinque levia, basi minute acuteque emarginata, 
11 mill. longa, 8-9 mill. lata, 2 */,-3 mill. crassa. 
In Brasiliæ prov. Rio de Janeiro ad Corcovado (Glaziou n. 10862 in 
herb. Brux. et Warm.). 
23. €. tubulosa (Cogn. in Mart. Fl. Bras. fase. 78, p. 78); fo- 
liolis membranaceis, sessilibus vel subsessilibus, utrinque glabris et 
Sublævibus, insigniter remoteque dentatis vel subcrenulatis, latera- 
libus asymmetricis extrinsecus auriculatis; cirrhis trifidis; calyce le- 
viter breviterque villoso, tubo elongato oblongo, ad basim rotundato. 
ami robusti, profunde sulcati, leviter pubescentes vel subglabri. 
Petiolus robustus, striatus, leviter pubescens, 3-4 cent. longus. Folia 
trifoliolata. Foliola oblongo-lanceolata, apice acuminata, utrinque 
pallide viridia, subtus tenuiter reticulata; terminale ad basim leviter 
attenuatum, 15-20 cent. longum, 5-8 cent. latum; lateralia 12-16 cent. 
longa, 5-7 cent. lata; nervi tenues, supra leviter prominentes, subtus 
valde prominentes. Flores masculi satis magni, in racemos 8-15-floros 
dispositi, rarius subfasciculati. Pedunculus communis robustus, stria- 
tus, leviter pubescens, 2-10 cent. longus; pedicelli graciles, patuli. 
+8 mill. longi, sæpe bracteolati ; bracteolæ subulatæ, pedicellis bre- 
"ores. Calycis tubus pallide viridis, 2 '/,-3 cent. longus, 1 cent. latus: : 
dentes lanceolato-lineares, remotissimi, plus minusve patuli, 2-3 mill. 
longi, "/-1 mill. lati. Corolla albescens, paulo infra apicem tubi caly- 
“is inserta, 10-12 mill. longa, usque ad ?/, divisa, segmentis erectis. 
"long o-lanceolatis, acutis, 5-nerviis, 3 mill. latis, margine indupli- 
catis, Stamina ad quadrantem inferiorem tubi calycis inserta; fila- 
menta 2-3 mill. longa. inferne dilatata et leviter villosa; antheræ in 
Capitulum 19-13 mill. longum, 4-5 mill. crassum coherentes. Pistillo- 
"a Cupuliforme, 3-4 mill. longum, 4-5 mill. crassum. — Flores 
feminei et fructus ignoti. 
i In sylvis inundatis insulæ Marajo et ad archipel. ostii fluv. Tocan- 
tins, prov. Para (Martius in herb. suo nune Bruxel. et herb. Monac. ); 
m Brasilia loco haud indicato (R. Pearcen. 281 in herb. Kew.). 
M. €. coriacea (Cogn. in Fl. Bras. 1. e. p. 79, tab. 22); foliolis 
"alde coriaceis, sessilibus subsessilibusve, integerrimis, utrinque gla- 
